Institute Pope Benedict XVI.

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Institute Pope Benedict XVI.

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legal form Public corporation
founding 2008
Seat regensburg
management Rudolf Voderholzer
Number of employees 7th
Branch Documentation of the writings of Pope Benedict XVI.
Website Institute Pope Benedict

The Pope Benedict XVI Institute is a company founded in 2008 Institute under the auspices of the Episcopal Ordinariate in the diocese of Regensburg . The institute is dedicated to recording and researching the works of Pope Benedict XVI. and bundles these activities by publishing the works under the title Joseph Ratzinger Gesammelte Schriften - JRGS.

tasks

The institute was founded by the Regensburg Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Pope Benedict XVI. has commissioned the publication of his works, and is supported by the Diocese of Regensburg. Müller was to continue this task even after his call to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith . The main task of the institute is to provide scientific support for this edition ; To this end, the institute collects the printed and unprinted works of Benedict together with the biographical and theological contexts and places sources and secondary literature in a publicly accessible special library for research into the work of Benedict XVI. ready. The tasks of the institute also include the organization of international scientific conferences.

The institute does not see itself in competition with the Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI Foundation , but the two similarly oriented institutions are closely interlinked. For example, belonged Siegfried Wiedenhofer the boards of trustees at both organizations.

Space and activity

The institute is located on the premises of the Episcopal Seminary in Regensburg . In 2010 the artist Michael Triegel painted a portrait of Pope Benedict XVI for the foyer of the institute . On March 17, 2008 , the Apostolic Nuncio in Germany, Archbishop Jean-Claude Périsset , blessed the institute's rooms ; Work has been in progress there since September 1st, 2008. The opening was on October 30th: The first volume with the title Theology of the Liturgy (Volume XI of the Complete Edition) was given to the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Jean-Claude Périsset and in a ceremony with the Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference Archbishop Robert Zollitsch and the Archbishop of Munich and Freising Reinhard Marx honored by Bishop Müller. In addition to the special library, the institute maintains an archive . The yearbook communications of the Institute-Pope-Benedict XVI. accompanies the editing work of the institute; it deals with sources, reception and discussion of Benedict's work and provides information on the work of the institute. The eleventh volume of the yearbook was published in January 2019. The book series Ratzinger Studies contains outstanding monographs and conference proceedings in which the theology of Joseph Ratzinger is discussed, commented on and interpreted.

In March 2009 a symposium on Volume XI of Benedict's collected writings, Theology of the Liturgy , took place in the rooms of the Regensburg seminary; a volume with the lectures held there was published in autumn 2009 by Verlag Friedrich Pustet as part of the Ratzinger Studies series . The publication of the second volume of Benedict's writings with his unabridged habilitation thesis and other Bonaventure studies in autumn 2009 was accompanied by a symposium.

After Benedict XVI. In September 2010 his private house in Pentling had been transferred to the institute, it was partially renovated and the furniture was reconstructed so that the house of Pope Benedict XVI. opened in September 2012 as a meeting place and biographical museum.

Staff and Board of Trustees

Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer is the founding director of the institute . The lay theologian Christian Schaller , who received the Joseph Ratzinger Prize in 2013 for his work , is the deputy director who is responsible for operational management and coordinates the work of the institute . Franz-Xaver Heibl , Tanja Constien and Barbara Krämer work as research assistants at the institute ; there are also employed specialists for the library, archive and secretariat.

The deputy director and the male research assistant are always members of the ten-person board of trustees to be appointed by the Bishop of Regensburg. The board of trustees advises the institute management on all scientific questions. Other well-known members of the board of trustees are Marianne Schlosser , Paolo Sottopietra , Maximilian Heim , Gerhard Nachtwei , Ludwig Raischl , Michael Karger , Karl Pichler, Rolf Schönberger , Helmut Hoping , Josef Zöhrer and Peter Hofmann .

Edition to be scientifically accompanied

The complete edition of the works of Benedict XVI. is published by Verlag Herder under the title Joseph Ratzinger Collected Writings (JRGS). The editor is Archbishop of the Curia Gerhard Ludwig Müller , Bishop Emeritus of Regensburg . The following volumes are in planning or have already been published:

  1. People and House of God in Augustine's Doctrine of the Church . The dissertation and further studies on Augustine and the theology of the Church Fathers ( published )
  2. Understanding of revelation and theology of history of Bonavetura . The unabridged habilitation thesis and other Bonaventure studies ( published )
  3. The god of faith and the god of philosophers. The mutual relatedness of fides and ratio
  4. Introduction to Christianity . Confession - Baptism - Succession ( published )
  5. Origin and destination. Creation - Anthropology - Mariology
  6. Jesus of Nazareth. Spiritual Christology ( published in two volumes)
  7. The teaching of the Second Vatican Council, formulation - mediation - interpretation ( published in two volumes)
  8. Signs among the peoples. Writings on ecclesiology and ecumenism ( published in two volumes)
  9. Revelation - Scripture - Tradition. Hermeneutics and Theological Principles
  10. Resurrection and Eternal Life. Contributions to eschatology ( published )
  11. Theology of the liturgy. The Sacramental Justification of Christian Existence ( published )
  12. Herald of the word and servant of your joy. On the theology and spirituality of the Sacrament of Orders ( published )
  13. In conversation with time. Interviews - Statements - Objections ( published in two volumes)
  14. Sermons for the church year. Meditations, prayers, meditations
  15. Out of my life. Autobiographical texts
  16. Bibliography and complete index

Volume XI was the first to be presented on October 16, 2008 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In September 2009, Volume II with Ratzinger's habilitation thesis was published in both the initially submitted and the revised version, framed by other writings on Saint Bonaventure . Volume VIII / 1 and Volume VIII / 2 appeared in June 2010, Volume XII was published in November 2010. Volume I with Ratzinger's dissertation was published in October 2011, and Volume X was published in April 2012. On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council , Volume VII / 1 and Volume VII / 2 were published in November 2012. In December 2013 volumes VI / I and VI / II on Christology appeared, which u. a. that of Joseph Ratzinger as Benedict XVI. composed trilogy of Jesus of Nazareth included. Volume IV was published in November 2014, which - supplemented by further texts on the subject - contains the most famous work from Joseph Ratzinger's time as a professor, the Introduction to Christianity .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller from Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Report on the institute's website from July 2012, seen in February 2019.
  2. ^ Karl Birkenseer: New Ratzinger Foundation supports young theologians. In: Passauer Neue Presse , November 13, 2008, printout from November 26, 2008.
  3. ^ Board of Trustees of the Joseph Ratzinger Pope Benedict Foundation . Homepage of the foundation, accessed on February 2, 2019.
  4. ^ RP Online: Exhibition by Michael Triegel - Pope portrait is in Leipzig ( Memento from November 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on November 27, 2010
  5. ↑ Zenith: Institute Pope Benedict XVI. started work in Regensburg on September 11, 2008
  6. ↑ http://www.institut-papst-benedikt.de/ratzinger-studien-rast.html
  7. ^ Marianne Schlosser and Franz-Xaver Heibl: The Presence of Revelation to the Bonaventure Studies by Joseph Ratzinger , Pustet, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7917-2292-4 >
  8. ^ Claudia Kock: Bonaventure and the theology of Benedict. On the occasion of the publication of the second volume of Joseph Ratzinger's “Collected Writings”, a scientific colloquium was held in Bagnoregio . In: Die Tagespost from September 19, 2009 Article in the network , PDF document
  9. ↑ http://www.institut-papst-benedikt.de/das-institut/kuratorium.html
  10. ↑ NZZ : Faith and Reason, Image and Cult October 13, 2008
  11. ^ Institute Pope Benedict XVI. September 15, 2009

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